Exploration of the Port Pirie area for Olympic Dam - type base and precious metals mineralisation in pre-Adelaidean basement rocks comprised the acquisition of an 18 square km grid UTEM survey designed for producing deep signal penetration into the...

5 prospective areas delineated from qualitative appraisal of available geophysical data, include basement base metal targets, Cambrian carbonate areas and 1 Tertiary palaeochannel target for uranium.

New work undertaken on EL 4187 during the 2009-2010 licence year has included: • Ongoing documentation and interpretation of MGD 55 & 56 • Drilling of MGD57 to 1243 m at Emmie Bluff prospect • Down hole EM and IP logging of MGD57 •...

During the 2012-2013 licence reporting year, work conducted in this the 21st year of tenure at Alford consisted of: - commissioning a consultant to undertake image processing and 3D inversion modelling of available gravity and magnetic datasets for...

A 106 square km area, comprising two blocks which cover the main historic copper and gold - producing districts centred around the towns of Moonta and Kadina, is being explored afresh in an attempt to identify ore resources of quantity sufficient to...

The Moonta project was initiated in 1959 and has been worked as a joint venture since the early 1960s. A large body of geological information has been accumulated, with factual input given by data obtained from geochemical exploratory drilling of ~...

During the 2008-2009 project reporting year (Year 13), Adelaide Resources Limited continued to review all of the past exploration in the Moonta region. This disclosed 190 surface gold anomalies that the company thought warranted further consideration,...

TARGET: Uranium and base metal deposits associated with Early to Middle Proterozoic basement geological structures and rock units in Spencer Gulf coastal areas east and south of Port Broughton. EXPLORATION: Aerial magnetic and radiometric surveys,...

Rock alteration to strata on the northern Yorke Peninsula, which appears to have been caused by an event which spanned the Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic boundary (~1600 Ma), was responsible for emplacing much of the mineralisation found in the...

The 1373 square km Roopena licence area, which lies a short distance inland from Spencer Gulf between Port Augusta and Whyalla, was taken by Aurora Gold to explore for possible economic deposits of gold and copper mineralisation formed within a...

EL 4177, made up of three disjoint parts, is located on the central-western side of Yorke Peninsula near the towns of Port Victoria, Maitland and Arthurton, and covers a total area of 243 square km. The underlying basement rocks there are part of the...

A number of small, disjoint parcels of available exploration ground in the Moonta-Wallaroo district were taken up by Minotaur early in 2010 to assess their basement IOCG mineralisation potential. A preliminary review done by Minotaur of historic...

An area on the Stuart Shelf which is centred ~45 km north-northwest of Mount Gunson and 70 km south-east of Olympic Dam was taken up to explore primarily for possible economic buried Mesoproterozoic basement-hosted copper-gold deposits, perhaps of...

The greenfields Ridgeback prospect, located about 5 km east-southeast of Bute on the northern Yorke Peninsula, is being explored by EL 4278 sole licensee Investigator Resources for possible Hillside deposit look-alike, Proterozoic basement-hosted...

An area on northern Yorke Peninsula comprised of three separate small sub-blocks centred ~17 km south of Moonta near Oakburn has been explored for possible buried economic IOCG type mineralisation which could have formed within Palaeoproterozoic or...

Exploration field activities operated by the parent company of the new licensee commenced during March-May 2003, when Argonaut Resources (Argonaut) undertook a rotary mud/diamond drilling programme to test targets located at Netherleigh Park, Alford...

In March 2010, once the terms of the joint venture agreement had been finalised, Argo passed its complete data sets to Xstrata, who immediately commenced a re-logging of Argo's drill cores besides conducting comprehensive unconstrained 3-D modelling...

When Phelps Dodge began managing exploration on EL 2885 in mid-2002, its focus was on defining structurally-controlled magnetic targets that had remained untested, but which could host significant sized deposits of Olympic Dam or Ernest Henry type...

Returns from copper and gold won from the Moonta-Wallaroo district supported the South Australian economy from 1860-1920. During those 60 years some 355,000 t of copper and 2 t of gold were extracted from the twin mining fields of Wallaroo and Moonta:...

This excursion was designed with the intent of introducing its participants to the geology, mineralisation and alteration styles present in the Moonta - Wallaroo region, through guided drill core inspection, a trip to the Wheal Hughes open pit mine,...